On what grounds do you prohibit meat-eating?

On medical, psychological, moral and spiritual grounds. The mind is made up of the
essence of the food that a man takes. Tamasic food results in a Tamasic mind. Meat is Tamasic
and hence should be avoided.
When an animal is killed or butchered, a contraction of its nervous system takes place on
account of fear. (And you might have felt certain disturbances in your own stomach when you
have experienced fear.) This leads to the secretion of certain poisons in the liver, etc., of the
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misconceptions

I’m not the one who thinks that if you take non-vegetarian food you will not become enlightened. Jesus became enlightened. Mohammed became enlightened. Ramakrishna became enlightened. There has been no problem. You can take non-vegetarian food and you can become enlightened. So there is no religious problem about it.

To me, the problem is that of aesthetics. Because Jesus continued to eat meat, I have the feeling that he has not great aesthetic sense. Not that he is not religious, he is perfect… http://bit.ly/bRMc0W